The U.S. and Japanese governments agreed Thursday to settle their dispute over the commercial incinerator that has been spewing smoke and toxic fumes over a U.S. Navy base in Japan, a senior U.S.

Challenging a medical doctrine that has stood for two decades, researchers reported that they have found no evidence that estrogen supplements protect older women from heart disease. The findings are

How a home is decorated speaks volumes about the people who live there. It may also have a say in how much pollution they are exposed to . A study of benzene pollution in six European cities found

Madagascar-- Cholera killed 384 people in Madagascar in February, a sharp increase in an epidemic that began in march 1999 and one that has cliamed 1,362 lives, according to Health Ministry

Ukraine on Monday began two days of national mourning for 81 coal miners killed in an underground explosion. Of the 277 miners underground at the time of the blast Saturday, 80 were killed

Mongolian herders will face hunger by May as their livestock die off after the harshest winter in 30 years, the United Nations said Sunday. "The starvation is gfoing to come, and it is going to be a

Conservationists have succeeded in habituating another group of rare mountain gorillas in a national park in southwestern Uganda, opening up opportunities to view the endangered primates, a newspaper

A massive campaign in Egypt to eradicate a blood parasite went disastrously wrong, causing an epidemic of hepatitis C that infected up to a fifth of the country's population, according to research

David Buzan, a spokeman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said nearly 300 miles of coast from Smith Point south to Corpus Christi were suffering from red tide, which is caused here by a

After two decades of rapid economic development and the pollution and the ecological shifts that go with it, severe red tides have begun to plague China's vast coastline, surfacing unexpectedly like